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AI agents now drive more web traffic than humans — is India any different?For the first time, artificial intelligence agents have generated more web traffic than humans globally, according to Cloudflare. This shif...- The end of Ask.com, and the shifting sands of internet useAfter a 25-year run, Ask Jeeves has officially shut down as part of a strategic shift by parent company IAC. Launched in 1996 as a conversa...
- Is internet more AI-driven than human? Report reveals the way forwardPer a report by cybersecurity firm HUMAN Security, in 2025, automated internet traffic grew 23.51% YoY, almost eight times faster than the ...
- Martech startup Fibr AI raises $5.7 million seed round led by AccelMartech startup Fibr AI has raised $5.7 million in a seed round led by Accel, following its $1.8 million pre-seed in 2024. Founded in 2023 ...
- Google crawls 3X more of the web than OpenAI, & how that mattersGoogle's extensive web crawling capabilities, significantly exceeding competitors like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Meta, could grant ...
- As AI data scrapers sap websites' revenues, some fight backAI crawlers from major tech firms are scraping vast amounts of web content without permission, undermining traffic and revenues for publish...
- Future of search lies in indexing for AI: Perplexity CEO Aravind SrinivasIn an exclusive interview with ET's Samidha Sharma, Srinivas said that traditional web indexes were designed for users clicking through lin...
- Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of using stealth crawling techniques to evade network blocksIn a blog post, Cloudflare alleged that Perplexity initially uses a declared user agent for its bots, and later switches to undeclared, gen...
- AI search pushing an already weakened media ecosystem to the brinkGenerative AI tools like ChatGPT are reducing traffic to news websites by providing direct summaries, threatening media revenue models. As ...
- Cloudflare launches tool to help website owners monetise AI bot crawler accessThe tool allows website owners to choose whether artificial intelligence crawlers can access their material and set a price for access thro...
- Companies alert as along come AI web spidersAI crawlers are computer programs that collect data from websites to train large language models. Enterprises are increasingly blocking AI ...
- Why OpenAI's SearchGPT won't kill Google Search anytime soonWhether GenAI-based search can ever dethrone incumbents like Google Chrome is still a far sight. But if it does, it could cause a tectonic ...
- Apple claims to not use unethical data to train its AIApple explained in the paper that its main aim is to assist users with everyday tasks. “Our models are designed to help users with daily ac...
- Reddit to update web standard to block automated website scrapingAI startups face scrutiny for bypassing Reddit's updated scraping rules. Plagiarism accusations against firms like Perplexity highlight the...
- Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm saysPerplexity likely bypassed web crawler blocks via the Robots Exclusion Protocol, as reported by Wired, using analytics to track AI traffic.
- ETtech Explainer: OpenAI’s response to NYT’s copyright lawsuitOpenAI has refuted some of these allegations and claimed that the fair use doctrine of copyright laws will apply in its case. ET explains t...
- ETtech Explainer | NYT vs OpenAI: Why news publishers are fighting Big Tech over LLMsLast week’s copyright infringement lawsuit by The New York Times ( NYT) against ChatGPT- maker OpenAI has opened another battlefront betwee...
- BBC blocks OpenAI data scraping, to harness Generative AIThe BBC's director of nations, Rhodri Talfan Davies, believes that the use of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Generative AI (Gen...
- All the content that's fit to be paid forML deepens the trench between online content and its distribution. Publishers have been seeking a larger share of online advertising revenu...
- What is webcrawler GPTBot that OpenAI has newly released?OpenAI's GPTBot plans to expand the horizons of AI through web crawling.
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